I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...

Never the wrong time to sit our 4-hour Monthly Zazenkai ... looking at Menzan's Mirror ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-in-the-Mirror

... and our 90 minute weekly Zazenkai ... always "At Home" ... https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-in-the-Mirror

Washin continues our sittings for Peace ... from Odessa ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...hin-in-Ukraine

For the Jukai Crowd ... and all of us too ... PRECEPTS IV - To Refrain from Stealing ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-from-Stealing

What Happens When We Stop Sitting Zazen? ... Nothings Happens ... but not the good kind of Nothing Happens ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ng-Zazen-REDUX

Zazen in the bath [Jundo: Or Reclining] ... YES, if there are health reasons to do so ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...o-Or-Reclining

"Vowing to free all sentient beings" means we do what? ... several good meanings, in fact ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ans-we-do-what

A thread that depends how one looks at things ... Do we all experience the world in the same way?? ... and non-look ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...me%20way%3F%3F

A nice way to help kids appreciate where their food comes from ... Kids’ Meal Gatha ... and adults too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...%92-Meal-Gatha

We keep rollin' on with Kodo ... Homeless Kodo's "TO YOU" - Chapters 21, 22 & 23 ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...pters-21-22-23

Zen of Everything Podcast ... Buddha Basics 07: WhatsaWhosaBodhisattva ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...osaBodhisattva

Tonglen for two ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE

... and Ryaku Fasatsu too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...tment-Ceremony


And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Lend-A-Hand%29




I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.



A Re-MINDer on SIMPLICITY:

In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.

SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.

(BUT too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)

As a powerful Zen practice about not falling into words and thoughts, simplifying ideas, not getting tangled, we ask people to keep sentences few in posting. However, it is not some law or hard rule at all. If someone really has something in their heart to say, and it is vital and cannot be said more concisely or silently, then say what one is called to say: In such case, no limit on words needed.

A Request to Sangha Members: "Three Sacred Sentences" Practice
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ences-Practice

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As well, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).

Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.

So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.

Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):


Gassho, Jundo

(Sorry to run long)

SatTodayLAH